Dyadic Parenting and Children's Externalizing Symptoms

Abstract

We explore dyadic parenting styles and their association with first-grade children’s externalizing behavior symptoms in a sample of 85 working-class, dual-earner families. Cluster analysis is used to create a typology of parenting types, reflecting the parental warmth, overreactivity, and laxness of both mothers and fathers in two-parent families. Three distinct groups emerged: Supportive Parents, Mixed-Support Parents and Unsupportive Parents. Results indicate that dyadic parenting styles were related to teacher-reported externalizing symptoms for boys but not for girls.

First-Year Female College Students’ Academic Motivation as a Function of Perceived Parenting Styles: A Contextual Perspective

“…According to Voronov and Singer, what is often interpreted as differences in individualism-collectivism can be accounted for by demographic variables, such as education attainment and employment condition. In fact, in the context of parenting styles, previous studies have linked low socioeconomic-status (SES) and educational attainment of parents to authoritarian parenting (Meteyer and Jenkins 2009), whereas parents of higher SES levels were found to be more authoritative than lower SES parents (Mahmoud 1997). Demographic variables could also be suggested as possible predictors of learning motivations.…”

Father’s and Mother’s Perceptions of Parenting Styles as Mediators of the Effects of Parental Psychopathology on Antisocial Behavior in Outpatient Children and Adolescents

“…As a result, there are few studies that examine paternal parenting as a mediator of the relation between father's psychopathology and ASB in children [34]. Also, mothers and fathers have differential influences on the behavior of their offspring, especially when the children come from two-parent families [35], and their perceptions about their own parenting experiences can help to identify accurately maladaptive parental behaviors. Consequently, in this study were included reports from mothers and from fathers about their parenting styles and psychopathology.…”

A categorical approach to infants’ individual differences during the Still-Face paradigm

“…Cluster analysis has proven to be useful in demonstrating the variability of a cohort, providing more information than group analyses per sé (Glenn, Cunningham, Poole, Reeves, & Weidling, 2008). The clustering methods have been successfully employed in infant temperament research (Janson & Mathiesen, 2008), in parenting studies during infancy (Meteyer & Perry-Jenkins, 2009) and in analyses of caregivers' behavior during free interaction (Hofer, Hohenberger, Hauf, & Aschersleben, 2008). This approach was also employed to categorize both infant and maternal gaze direction and vocalization within a play condition (Kawai et al, 2010), infant looking features when presented with different kinds of object-in-motion video stimuli (Kutsuki, Kuroki, Egami, Ogura, & Itakura, 2009), and infants at risk for autism during a video interaction task based on the FFSF paradigm, that is by a TV-video interaction (Merin, Young, Ozonoff, & Rogers, 2007).…”